Re: Hauppauge WinTV USB Model 566 PAL-I

[Thierry Merle <thierry.merle@free.fr>]

Chris Grove wrote:
> Hi,
> Ok I've tried it and it works, sort of. I've managed to get a picture that
> works, the problem now is that the old bug of white lines on the display and
> noise on the audio is back. Any ideas if there is a tweak or something I can
> use to fix it please??
> 
Do you use external audio or the audio via usb?
Please use the external audio, much better sound quality (44KHz whereas 16KHz via USB).
What are the white lines on the display? Interferences, constant lines, other?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry Merle [mailto:thierry.merle@free.fr] 
> Sent: 29 November 2008 21:02
> To: Chris Grove
> Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV USB Model 566 PAL-I
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Chris Grove wrote:
>> Hi there, I've got one of these cards but I'm having trouble getting 
>> it to work. The problem is that it loads ok, but when I try to use it, 
>> it turns out that the tuner module has loaded the wrong tuner type. 
>> Instead of using tuner type 1, a PAL-I tuner which mine is, it selects 
>> a PAL-BG tuner. Now I've tried using type=1 in the modprobe line but 
>> it turns out that, that is no longer supported.
>>
>>  
>>
>> System Info.
>>
>> I'm using GeexBox which is built on linux-2.6.21.3 kernel.
>>
>>  
>>
>> The Init.d script is:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> #
>>
>> # setup tv cards
>>
>> #
>>
>> # runlevels: geexbox, debug, install
>>
>>  
>>
>> echo "### Setting up TV card ###"
>>
>> modprobe tuner pal=I
>>
>> modprobe tveeprom
>>
>> modprobe usbvision
>>
>> modprobe saa7115
>>
>>  
>>
>> echo -n "" > /var/tvcard
>>
>> exit 0
>>
>>  
>>
>> And the output from dmesg is:
>>
>> <6>usbvision_probe: Hauppauge WinTv-USB II (PAL) MODEL 566 found
>>
>> <6>USBVision[0]: registered USBVision Video device /dev/video0 [v4l2]
>>
>> <6>USBVision[0]: registered USBVision VBI device /dev/vbi0 [v4l2] (Not 
>> Working Yet!)
>>
>> <6>usbcore: registered new interface driver usbvision
>>
>> <6>USBVision USB Video Device Driver for Linux : 0.9.9
>>
>> <6>eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
>>
>> <6>tuner 1-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (usbvision #0)
>>
>> <6>tda9887 1-0042: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x42 (tuner)
>>
>> <6>tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (usbvision #0)
>>
>> <6>tuner 1-0061: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and 
>> compatibles))
>>
>> <6>tuner 1-0061: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and 
>> compatibles))
>>
>> <6>saa7115 1-0025: saa7113 found (1f7113d0e100000) @ 0x4a (usbvision 
>> #0)
>>
>> <6>tda9887 1-0042: i2c i/o error: rc == -121 (should be 4)
> please try a modprobe tda9887 debug=1 to see some debug messages where it
> fails.
> Proceed like this:
> modprobe tda9887 debug=1
> modprobe saa7115
> modprobe usbvision
> Then, plug-in your device.
> Geeksbox is based on mplayer, I tested OK mplayer but with some tuning like
> this:
> mplayer -tv
> driver=v4l2:width=320:height=240:norm=SECAM:outfmt=yuy2:channels=21-F2 tv://
> 
> Cheers,
> Thierry
> 
> 


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